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sproutcore - abbot

DESCRIPTION:

SproutCore is a platform for building native look-and-feel applications on
the web. This Ruby library includes a copy of the SproutCore JavaScript
framework as well as a Ruby-based build system called Abbot.

Abbot is a build system for creating static web content. You can supply
Abbot with a collection of JavaScript, HTML, CSS and image files and it
will combine the files into a bundle that are optimized for efficient,
cached deliver directly from your server or using a CDN.

Some of the benefits of using Abbot versus assembling your own content
include:

* Easy maintenance. Organize your source content in a way that is useful for
you without impacting performance on loaded apps.
* Automatically versioned URLs. Serve content with long expiration dates
while Abbot handles the cache invalidation for you.
* Dependency management. Divide your code into frameworks; load 3rd party
libraries. Abbot will make sure everything loads in the correct order.
* Packing. Combines JavaScript and CSS into single files to minimize the
number of resources you download for each page.

Although Abbot is intended primarily for building Web applications that use
the SproutCore JavaScript framework, you can also use it to efficiently
build any kind of static web content, even if SproutCore is not involved.

Abbot can be used both directly from the command line or as a ruby library.

USING ABBOT WITH SPROUTCORE:

This gem includes both the Abbot build tools and a copy of the SproutCore
JavaScript framework. You can use built-in commands to create, develop,
build, and deploy SproutCore-based applications.

USING ABBOT FROM SOURCE:

These steps will allow the use of a development release of abbot rather
than an installed gem.

1. Inside a empty project folder create a file named 'Gemfile' (no extension)
Modify the file so that it contains:
source "http://rubygems.org"
gem "sproutcore", :git => "git://github.com/sproutcore/abbot.git"
# if you want to use a version of abbot already checked out into your system rather than the remote repository
# gem "sproutcore", :path => "/path/to/abbot"
2. Install Abbot and its dependencies by running these commands
$ sudo gem install bundler
$ bundle install --binstubs
This will install the Ruby 'bundler' gem (if it is not already), then add a 'bin' directory to your project containing executables like "sc-server".
The bundle install command will take care of locating, installing and linking to either the remote git or locally installed version of abbot and dependencies.
3. Init the Sproutcore project and start the server
$ bin/sc-init .
$ bin/sc-server

KNOWN LIMITATIONS:

Currently does not support sites using relative-links. You must specify
the absolute path you expect built targets to be hosted as.

INSTALL:

LICENSE:

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